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The beginning of our life is similar to Helen's in many ways. Like her, he grew up in New York,

joined the young Communist League in college. After he and Helen got married, they drove across

the country to start a new life in Hollywood. I'll dreamed of becoming a screenwriter, but his

timing was bad. You're on the verge of being hired as a screenwriter and you get draft.

Right. What happens now? So my draft was the only one in Los Angeles

that sent people out of Los Angeles for the physical. They put me in a bus, sent me to Fresno

with a group of others from that graph board. For my physical, then back, I mean, it was really insane.

And then when I went into the army, our station to Culver City at what was familiarly known as Fort

Roach for a year and a half, you know about Fort Roach, I assume. Hell Roach Studios. It was a

hell Roach Studios that would take an over by the government for the first motion picture unit.

The first motion picture unit was part of the Army Air Forces during the Second World War.

They made training films and newsreels. She was a B-29, the super foot, with 2200 horsepower

in each of four engines, with a fuel capacity equal to that of a railroad tank car.

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